Protect Your Privacy On Facebook

With Facebook receiving a large amount of publicity surrounding how they handle your personal data, ReclaimPrivacy.org has produced a simple tool that will test your privacy settings.

Lesson Learned: The 5 Whys

At the start of the week I was trying to solve a problem in my new role as an IT Manager, This is my first managerial role at a company of this size and some of the things I am noticing are, the “tips and tricks” some of my colleagues have picked up over the years working in their various roles.

The Pirate Party Becomes The Pirate Bay’s New Host

After its previous bandwidth provider had to take the site offline due to concerns over an aggressive Hollywood injunction, today The Pirate Bay is fully back in operation with a surprising new supplier. From a few hours ago, in a move intended to “stand up for freedom of expression”, the Swedish Pirate Party became the site’s new host.
Following an injunction obtained by several major Hollywood movie studios, yesterday Pirate Bay bandwidth provider CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG took the decision to take the site offline while it digested the legal implications.

That meant that for several hours The Pirate Bay, for the first time in many months, was taken offline. An insider at the site told TorrentFreak that people shouldn’t worry, and that the site would soon return.

Gaining Street Cred..

You saw it here first.

Freetards outraged

Taken from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:

Just got this email from a guy at the Free Software Foundation:

We personally do not use the dieresis in our own writing, but we respect and will defend the right of the New Yorker or anyone else to do so. Who are you to just go changing the English language? And what’s next? Will you outlaw the umlaut in German? Diacritical marks in French? And while you’re at it, why not acute and grave accents? Where does it end?

Answers to those questions, in reverse order:

It ends where I say it ends. It’s my machine, and I decide what you can do with it. Deal.

The French and German stuff can stay.

What’s next is I’m going to have Silvano, my assistant, wheel me around the Stanford Shopping Center and I’m going to point to things that I want banned.

And who am I? I’m Steve fucking Jobs, bitch. I invented the friggin iPod. And the iPhone. And the iPad. And I’m not changing the language. I’m making it better. If you didn’t have such a massive ego you might realize that I’m doing this for your own good.